Quality Control – from Data to Decisions. Basic Concepts

by Zoe Brooks

The first course in this series, Basic Concepts is designed for anyone who wants to obtain a sound understanding of the information conveyed by QC statistics so they can make meaningful decisions and quickly interpret daily QC results. This course will benefit laboratory students, junior technologists, QC specialists and anyone who wishes to be able to look at QC numbers and quickly convert that numerical data to information to enable appropriate decisions. This interactive program reviews the information conveyed by fundamental statistics and enables participants to interpret and apply this information to evaluate daily QC data. It will help you apply fundamental quality control principles in daily decision making in clinical laboratories. This edition refers to Zoe Brooks as the author, as she has made significant changes to the content over the years. Please recognize that David Plaut was co-author of the original material, and a significant contributor to concepts presented.

Spiral-bound

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

I am a British writer and poet. I spend half my life in a partly restored old farmhouse in the Czech Republic, where I write all my novels and poetry. I aim to write popular books, which have complex characters and themes that get under the reader's skin. My fantasy adventure novel Mother of Wolves is available on Amazon. The three books (Girl in The Glass, Love of Shadows and The Company of Shadows of my Healer's Shadow Trilogy are also available and my long poem for voices Fool's Paradise, which won the EPIC prize for best poetry book.

I have two blogs. One is my personal blog http://zoebrooks.blogspot.com. The second is the magic realism blog, on which I read and review a different magic realism book a week, it's on http://www.magic-realism.net.

I also have a weekly online newspaper http://www.womens-fiction.net, which features the best articles about books by and for women.

I was a successful published poet in my teens and twenties, (featuring in the Grandchildren of Albion anthology). Then my son arrived and I was juggling motherhood and career and somehow there wasn't time for the writing. So many women will know how that feels. I regretted it of course and I kept on writing in my head.

I worked with disadvantaged people for about twenty years. It was emotionally hard work but very rewarding. But it took its toll and a few years ago I realized that I couldn't continue. I needed to start writing again.

In my career I had listened to so many brave women (and men and children), to their stories of the terrible things that happened to them and of their survival. I'd worked with asylum seekers, the homeless, abused women, people whose lives have been broken, women like the central character in Girl in the Glass. I have never had their experiences and I suppose the only way I could start understanding was to work it through using my imagination. Not that the central character in Girl in the Glass is any one woman, she isn't, her story is her own.